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: OpenAI announced the establishment of a new subsidiary, OpenAI Deployment Company, focused on driving the large-scale implementation and system reconfiguration of AI within core enterprise operations, marking its extension from a "model provider" further into the realm of "enterprise AI infrastructure and implementation."The new company will focus on the "Frontline Deployment Engineer (FDE)" model, which involves deeply embedding AI engineers within enterprises to work alongside management and frontline teams to restructure key business processes, transforming AI capabilities into sustainable, operational production systems. The goal is not just to provide model capabilities, but to help enterprises rebuild their organizational and operational frameworks around "intelligent systems."In its initial phase, OpenAI has reached an agreement to acquire AI consulting and engineering firm Tomoro, bringing in approximately 150 engineers and experts with experience in complex enterprise AI deployments, covering high-complexity business scenarios such as retail, aviation, and gaming.OpenAI Deployment Company is led by TPG, with participation from 19 global investment institutions and consulting firms including Advent, Bain Capital, and Brookfield, as well as Goldman Sachs, SoftBank Group, McKinsey, Bain & Company, and Capgemini, forming a collaborative ecosystem spanning capital and enterprise transformation services. The company's initial financing round exceeds $4 billion.
According to an exclusive report by The Information, Kuaishou is planning to spin off its AI video generation business, Kling AI, as an independent entity, with a target valuation of $20 billion.
According to Bloomberg, Ripple’s prime brokerage division secured up to $200 million in asset-backed debt financing through Neuberger Berman’s specialized financial team. The funds will be used to expand margin capacity for institutional investors across multi-market trading—including equities, fixed income, and cryptocurrencies—with the actual available credit line dynamically adjusted based on institutional clients’ borrowing needs.
According to @cryptounfolded, Circle has completed the Arc token presale, raising $222 million with a fully diluted valuation of $3 billion. The round was led by a16z, with participation from major institutions including BlackRock and Apollo. Arc is positioned as a public blockchain for institutional contracts, governance, and AI agents, using USDC as its underlying settlement currency. Circle will receive 25% of the tokens for validator rewards.
Circle has released its financial results for the first quarter of fiscal year 2026. The data shows that as of the end of the first quarter, the circulating supply of USDC reached $77 billion, a year-over-year increase of 28%; on-chain transaction volume for USDC in the first quarter reached $21.5 trillion, up 263% year-over-year.The financial report indicates that Circle's total revenue and reserve income for the first quarter was $694 million, a 20% increase year-over-year; adjusted EBITDA was $151 million, up 24% year-over-year; net profit was $55 million, a 15% decrease year-over-year.Additionally, Circle disclosed that its ARC Token pre-sale raised $222 million, with a fully diluted valuation of $3 billion. Participants included institutions such as a16z crypto, BlackRock, and ARK Invest. The company also announced the launch of the "Agent Stack" infrastructure for AI agent scenarios, including products like Agent Wallets and Agent Marketplace, designed to support AI agent payments and commercial activities based on USDC.
According to the official announcement, the second asset launched on Bitget IPO Prime is preOPAI—a digital token issued by the regulated issuer Republic on the Solana blockchain, designed to mirror OpenAI’s post-IPO economic performance on a 1:1 basis. As the world’s leading consumer AI provider, OpenAI reports approximately 900 million weekly active users, according to official data. Its most recent funding round raised $122 billion, with participants including Microsoft, NVIDIA, Amazon, and SoftBank. Bitget IPO Prime operates on a subscription model, whereby users receive subscription quotas based on their account tier. Upon completion of token allocation, users may trade the tokens on the upcoming spot market. Alternatively, after the lock-up period for preOPAI’s underlying debt assets expires, the issuer will authorize Bitget to convert users’ holdings into either stock tokens or USDT, referencing the underlying company’s (OpenAI’s) publicly traded stock price. IPO Prime Details: • OpenAI Implied Valuation: $898.21 billion • Total IPO Prime Subscriptions: 29,082 • Total Subscription Value: $21,084,450 • Subscription Price: 1 preOPAI = $725 • Accepted Subscription Currencies: USDT or USDGO • Total Subscription Pool Cap: $300,000,000
Odaily, Fortune Protocol, a BSC-based lucky cookie prediction protocol, has announced the completion of its Seed round of financing. The round saw participation from TBV, Cogitent Ventures, X21 Digital, CGV FoF, K24 Ventures, LandScape Capital, and others.Fortune is a next-generation Web3 financial protocol focused on the construction and innovation of prediction market liquidity infrastructure.The funds raised in this round will be used to accelerate the research and development of Fortune's AI prediction tools and large-scale prediction models, driving the protocol's further development across technical, product, and ecosystem dimensions.
According to Fortune, stablecoin-focused bank Augustus has received a federal banking charter from the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), becoming the eighth institution to obtain such a license since 2010. Simultaneously, Augustus closed a $40 million funding round, with investors including Valar Ventures (founded by Peter Thiel), Creandum, and founders of Ramp, Deel, and Circle.
Capital B announced a private placement raising €15.2 million by issuing 23,038,844 shares at €0.66 per share, each accompanied by four warrants. Investors include global institutional investors such as Adam Back and TOBAM. The company stated that the proceeds will primarily be used to increase its Bitcoin holdings; combined with existing operating capital, this could enable the acquisition of an additional 182 BTC, potentially bringing its total Bitcoin holdings to 3,125 BTC. If all warrants issued in this offering are fully exercised, the company could raise an additional €99.1 million.
According to The Wall Street Journal, OpenAI allowed each employee to sell up to $30 million worth of shares in its recent funding round, making them among the early beneficiaries cashing out amid the current AI boom. The report states that in October last year, over 600 current and former employees collectively sold shares worth $6.6 billion; approximately 75 of them hit the $30 million cap. Employees had previously waited about two years before being granted the opportunity to sell their shares.
According to CNBC, AI chip company Cerebras Systems is expected to raise the size and price range of its initial public offering (IPO) as early as Monday, increasing the offering price from $115–$125 per share to $150–$160 per share and raising the number of shares offered from 28 million to 30 million. At the upper end of the revised range, Cerebras could raise approximately $4.8 billion—up from the originally planned $3.5 billion. Sources indicate that the IPO’s subscription volume has already exceeded available shares by more than 20 times. Cerebras expects to price its IPO on May 13 and plans to list on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the ticker symbol “CBRS.”
According to Bloomberg, blockchain infrastructure company Digital Asset is raising approximately $300 million from investors including a16z crypto at a valuation of about $2 billion. Sources familiar with the matter said that a16z crypto—one of the crypto industry’s major venture capital firms—is leading this funding round. The deal is expected to close within the next few weeks, though the final funding amount may still change. Digital Asset’s blockchain has already been adopted by numerous major banks and trading firms.
Digital Asset (the developer of Canton Network) is reportedly raising approximately $300 million in funding at a valuation of around $2 billion, led by a16z crypto, the venture arm of Andreessen Horowitz.The funding round is expected to close within the next few weeks and would be the company's largest financing round to date. Canton Network has attracted participation from institutions including Visa, Goldman Sachs, and DTCC.The network focuses on a privacy-configurable public chain designed for institutions and has already processed or issued over $6 trillion in tokenized assets.
: Crypto analyst Axel Adler Jr stated that although Bitcoin rebounded after falling from around $125,000 to $60,000, the current trend remains a "repair after decline" and has not yet been confirmed as entering a new bull market cycle.He pointed out that from an on-chain data perspective, multiple key indicators have not yet entered the historical bear market bottom range. This includes the "Supply in Loss" and 90-day UTXO-related metrics, which have not yet shown a sufficient cyclical bottom structure. Meanwhile, the "LTH Realized Supply" has also not displayed the typical accumulation pattern seen at the end of a bear market, indicating that the market has not yet entered a deep reallocation phase.Additionally, spot selling pressure indicators have not shown obvious "capitulation selling", suggesting that a typical comprehensive market cleansing has not occurred during this decline. Axel Adler Jr believes that before improvements are seen simultaneously in on-chain structure, spot demand, and supply pressure, the current upward move is more likely a technical rebound rather than a trend reversal.On a macro level, he pointed out that the global risk environment remains tight. The conflict between the US and Iran has pushed Brent crude oil close to $100 per barrel, reigniting inflationary pressure. Consumer confidence and financial health indices are weakening, indicating pressure on the demand side. Meanwhile, US Treasury yields remain high, with real interest rates and inflation expectations rising concurrently, further suppressing risk asset valuations.He also mentioned that the leadership of the US Federal Reserve is about to enter a potential transition phase, but the interest rate market is no longer pricing in rapid rate cuts and has even begun to price in the probability of rate hikes. Market expectations have clearly shifted towards "higher for longer". In an environment of high oil prices, high interest rates, and uncertain monetary policy, overall financial conditions remain tight.Axel Adler Jr stated that the current market needs to wait for clearer on-chain bottom structures and signs of demand-side recovery. Until then, he maintains a cautious stance on the market outlook.
Matthew Sigel, Head of Digital Assets Research at VanEck, stated he expects Bitcoin to revisit its all-time high within the next 12 months. This is because the current correlation between BTC and the Nasdaq index is near a five-year high, and the resilience of the US stock market provides support for this rebound. However, the derivatives market has not yet shown significant optimism; futures and options trading largely reflects short covering and hedging demand. From a contrarian perspective, this suggests the Bitcoin rally may still have room to continue.Matthew Sigel also noted that a central bank has already announced plans to include Bitcoin in its foreign exchange reserves this year, indicating that BTC is gradually evolving into a global asset suitable for large-scale cross-border settlements. He believes this will become a long-term trend. In terms of investment direction, he favors a further increase in Bitcoin's market dominance, as well as Bitcoin mining companies poised to benefit from the trend of AI integration. He believes mining companies are increasingly becoming significant beneficiaries of AI infrastructure, and as AI-related businesses grow, the pressure on miners to sell BTC for financing is also decreasing.Furthermore, Matthew Sigel believes that if the CLARITY Act is eventually passed, it could revitalize sentiment in the altcoin market. However, currently, most institutional investors remain cautious towards the majority of altcoins due to regulatory and investor protection concerns.
enterprise-level native AI platform Pit has announced the completion of a $16 million funding round, led by a16z, with participation from Lakestar and executives from leading AI companies such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Deel, and Revolut. It is reported that Pit is positioned as an "AI product team as a service," aiming to replace traditional spreadsheets and rigid SaaS systems.
after South Korea this year began separately listing virtual asset sale proceeds within housing financing plans, the influx of cryptocurrency gains into the real estate market has been partially reflected.According to data from the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport of South Korea, from February 10 to March 31, a total of 324 homebuyers declared the use of proceeds from crypto asset sales in their residential property financing plans. Among them, buyers aged 30 to 39 numbered 229, accounting for approximately 70.7%. In terms of amount, this age group reported crypto asset sale proceeds used for home purchases amounting to about 10.31 billion Korean won (approximately $7.4 million), the highest among all age groups.However, these funds currently account for only about 0.1% of total home purchase capital, with the overall scale remaining relatively limited.
According to Yicai, recent reports indicate that DeepSeek is launching its first round of financing, attracting interest from companies including Tencent and Alibaba in discussions regarding equity investment. However, negotiations between Alibaba and DeepSeek recently broke down. Today, a market source told Yicai reporters that Alibaba likely did not engage in such negotiations.
in April, DeepSeek launched a rare massive fundraising plan, attracting major players Tencent and Alibaba. Earlier, media sources claimed that negotiations between Alibaba and DeepSeek had collapsed. In response, a market source exclusively told reporters on May 9 that Alibaba likely did not participate in any talks. (National Business Daily)
According to PRNewswire, enterprise blockchain infrastructure provider Antier Solutions announced the completion of a $3 million funding round, led by GVFL. The new capital will support the development of secure transactions, verifiable workflows, and institutional-grade blockchain infrastructure; expand deployments in the government and banking, financial services, and insurance (BFSI) sectors; and grow its business operations in the United States, Middle East, and Asia-Pacific markets.